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Bumper protection from bad parkers?
I have to park my BRZ on the street in a large city and people are constantly hitting my bumpers when parking and rashing my ride. I've had 4 insurance claims in a year because of this. I was considering having a friend machine some spikes to screw into tow hook threads to really ruin the assholes who bump into me, but upon further thought, they would be impacting my frame, which I definitely don't want.
I haven't been able to find any decent bumper protection that I can use. I want to keep my bumpers on while protecting their paint, so drift armor doesn't really cover both of these. Does anyone know of any way to keep these assholes in their priuses from mangling my clean paint, or at least really punish them when they do? I'm sick of it, and don't have a way to get off street parking here. |
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solution....never park ^^
seriously though, there isn't going to be a way around this besides parking as far away from people as often as you can and getting a dashcam. Either way, having 4 insurance claims for bumps is pretty extreme..how close do you keep your bumper to the parking line? with the twins' smaller proportions, you should have plenty of room around you in most parking spots in the US especially in front and behind you..bumpers aren't the problem for me, it is the jerks who open their doors without any regard for surrounding cars... |
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What about a motion activated dash cam? Once you have their license number you can report them. In most places, this is considered a form of hit & run and they do take it seriously.
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Know of any good ones? Doesn't have to be budget, just effective. I'd like to have one in the front and back as well.
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Just look on eBay. You can get one pretty cheap. https://www.ebay.ca/itm/Driving-Reco...IAAOSwukldSpL5 |
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Ya... you can't own a half way decent car and street park in a major city. I lived in NYC most of my adult life and LA most of the rest of it - always garaged. I lent my sister an audi in NYC for 1 month and she street parked it and it came back hit and scraped about 8 different times impacting every body panel but the roof. The only thing I've ever seen avoid this is having a huge, already beat up, car/truck with huge steel bumpers. These tend to keep people from hitting you and if so all of the damage will be to their car. You have two options to save your car: 1) Move or 2) Find a garage (or at least off street space) to rent |
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It seems like the motion activated dash cams are my best bet. People don't seem to learn by paying their insurance deductibles so maybe they will be more considerate once I press misdemeanor charges and they get a criminal record.
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100% go for the dash cam and get their plates. It really sucks when people can’t respect other people’s property. I always park as far away from people as possible when going out. Unfortunately, our parking lot always gets full at work, but I park in a little corner. However, no matter how careful I am, I still get little dings here and there. Annoying as hell
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Just a thought, how about detachable bumpers (front and back)... Someone (Junk in your trunk thread) has confirmed that the rear bumper does fit in the Twins trunk.
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Dude I'm not going to pull bumpers off multiple times a day. I'd rather just call the cops and report hit and runs. I called on one lady who I saw hit my rear bumper and drive off as I was waving and yelling at her. She just looked at me and kept going. I took down her plate, called the cops, and they gave me her insurance information the same day.
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